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Process engineer Scott Duncan packaged plant practice into a skill, so Claude checks its PFD against standards and a review checklist before handing it over, catching errors like an open control loop or a steam coil above the liquid level. The output is an editable SVG plus the script that made it.
For process and chemical engineers: a first draft of a conceptual PFD in minutes, to mark up like any junior engineer's work.
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